UCHealth in Commerce City Teams Up with Toys for Tots

With the holiday season upon us, all 22 UCHealth Emergency Room facilities, along with its Commerce City facility, will be serving as Toys for Tots drop-off sites. UCHealth will be collecting unwrapped toys for children ages 0-12 now through December 13.

“We are excited and proud to be again teaming up with Toys for Tots and the local communities we serve to help brighten the holidays,” said Dr. Richard Zane, UCHealth’s executive director of emergency services and professor and chair of emergency medicine at the CU School of Medicine. “In 2015, we received an overwhelming response, and now with even more locations, we hope to continue the momentum in 2016.”

The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program has been delivering toys to children in need since 1947 and is the largest outreach program in the Department of Defense. The program collected and distributed 18 million toys to 7 million children in 2015, who otherwise would not have received toys at Christmas.

“We’re very grateful for UCHealth’s continued support of Toys for Tots,” said retired Marine Colonel Ted Silvester, vice president of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. “Through efforts like theirs, we are able to provide a Christmas for thousands of children across the United States.”

UCHealth Emergency Room facilities will be clearly marked as Toys for Tots drop-off sites with large holiday inflatables. The facilities are open 24 hours a day, seven day a week, making it even more convenient for generous residents to drop off their unwrapped gifts for deserving children in the community.

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